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...battle has centered around the size and shape of two new office and classroom buildings that Harvard hopes will one day comprise the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), planned to sit on the northeastern section of campus...
...state high-stakes exams have become a fact of life in the American classroom. Less noticed is the growing presence--and power--of firms like Kaplan that teach students and their teachers how to master them. The companies, which have spent decades deflating the mystique of the sat, take a similar tack with the grade-school exams. They maintain that test taking, like telling time or double-knotting a shoelace, is a "life skill" that every child can learn and no youngster should go without. Says Jeff McCullough, Kaplan's director of training and development: "Kids who have done well...
Other sacrifices may not be so easily recouped. Critics, including some classroom teachers, contend that many test-prep activities--such as skimming instead of reading passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn...
...people are accepted here because they are the best of the best, and nothing else. In practical terms, this means that we are surrounded by an incredibly talented and interesting cross-section of classmates; hence the cliche about the best Harvard education taking place “outside the classroom...
...Video Conferencing in the Classroom - A guide to using video conferencing as a teaching tool...